She had one massive opportunity vs Zvonareva, and posted a very abject performance, that's not good for one of the biggest matches of your career. ... Caro is under big pressure the next month to deliver big results if she wants to stay top 10, which we know from last year she does, regardless if she starts releasing statements of she's "not worried about her ranking drop".

Zvonareva was in slam finals, a YEC final, won IW and was a YE #2.
She's not awful. Its just that now it looks like Caro had a small window, so the Zvonareva SF and Li SF now look like big losses.
But in reality, Kim played very well in that USO final. Maybe the Li loss with matchpoint was closest to a slam win, because Kim never played the AO as well as the USO.

But every good player has some slam losses at least as bad as losing to Zvonareva.
The problem is that getting to a slam semi to face a nonslam winner seems far away now

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